hey, we’re back! we watched “day of the dove” back in like august and then chelsea got caught up in moving stuff and forgot what the word editing meant. this episode has klingons, so there’s plenty of cold war metaphors and blackface.

A spectre is haunting Star Trek: The Original Series season 3 – the Spectre of the Gun. All the powers of the Federation have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Kirk and Spock, human and Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan.

Where is the federation starship on patrol that has not been waylaid by weird space beings and forced to do gunfights? Where is the federation starship that has not pissed off an alien race so bad those aliens made them hang out on a cobbled-together western set all day, and then had to act like Billy the Kid and other Wild West historical figures?

The history of all hitherto existing space society is asshole space aliens making shit like this happen.

UPDATE: libsyn did something wrong and originally cut off the ending of this episode. you may need to refresh your feed to get the full version??

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these are some bad kids, folks! chelsea and SEM talk season 3 TOS episode “And The Children Shall Lead,” where kids are evil and you can’t trust angels. oh, there’s also a mass suicide in this one. in space!

The crew lands on a planet and Kirk promptly falls in a hole and gets amnesia. Chelsea and SEM try to deal with the episode’s events as best they can. This time, Long Trek Home discusses the Star Trek TOS season 3 episode “The Paradise Syndrome” …!